It can well be fancied that I clapped the spurs to my horse, for the hindermost in this race was likely to be the one who would suffer severely, and we clattered past the camp at the best possible speed.
No one spoke while this command was being obeyed until, the men having marched down the road a dozen yards or more from the hindermost wagon, Master Howell called upon them to halt.
The caterpillar is coloured grey and brown, with a black head, and a broad white stripe down the back of the hindermost segments.
Observe its long and slender legs, its humped middle segments, and its upturned hindermost segment, of enormous size and mounted with a pair of clubbed 'horns.
Here a silken carpet is spun as before described; but the caterpillar, instead of clinging with all its claspers, suspends itself in a vertical position by its hindermost pair only.
These have generally only two pairs of claspers, one pair on each of the tenth and last segments, so that there is a distance equal to the combined length of six segments between the hindermosttrue leg and the first pair of claspers.
The larvae are generally to be distinguished by a couple of little horns on one or more of the hindermost segments, and in most cases they pupate beneath the surface of the soil.
While we were doing this, one of the three hindermost boats came up to the relief of that which was disabled, and took the men out of her.
Excellency Senhor Sebastiao Joze de Carvalho," shouted the driver of the hindermost carriage; but the other heeded not his words.
The foremost segmental tubes are situated close behind the pronephros, while the hindermost are in many cases developed in the postanal continuations of the body cavity.
In the hindermostsections the hypoblast retains a perfectly normal structure and uniform thickness throughout.
Only the foremost end of the head and the hindermost end of the tail undergo no concrescence, since they are formed out of that part of the edge of the blastoderm which, together with the two lateral halves, completes the ring.
As long as the pronephros persists, the Muellerian duct consists merely of a very small rudiment, continuous with the hindermost of the three peritoneal openings, and its solid extremity appears to unite with the walls of the Wolffian duct.
The hindermost constriction (uppermost in my figure) lies just in front of the pericardial cavity; and separates the Cyathozooid from the four ascidiozooids.
The mesonephros of the Ammocoete undergoes at the metamorphosis complete atrophy, and is physiologically replaced by a posterior series of segmental tubes, opening into the hindermost portion of the segmental duct (Schneider).
Their points of junction with the Wolffian duct are carried back to the hindermost end of the duct (fig.
In the hindermost part of the body its mode of formation differs somewhat from that above described.
The hindermost end of the nephroduct opens right behind into the last section of the rectum, thus making a cloaca of it.
Transverse section of a young Amphioxus, immediately after metamorphosis, through the hindermost third (between the atrium-cavity and the anus).
He explored the hindermost recesses of his being, and brought forth his secrets for her to share.
DeVoe's headquarters consisted of a typical mining-camp shack in the heart of the town, containing a bare little office and two sleeping-rooms, the hindermost of which gave egress to a yard banked in snow and flanked by other frame buildings.
In front the projection is separated by a considerable interval from the Wolffian duct; but near its hindermost part it almost comes into contact with the Wolffian duct.
It will be noticed that, whereas the five hindermost are distinct till close to their openings into the urinogenital cloaca, the four anterior ones appear to unite at once into a single duct, but are probably only bound up in a common sheath.
Both the grooves and ridges are better marked in this than in the younger stage; but the chief difference between the two stages consists in the third groove no longer forming the hindermost limit of the head-kidney.
Since that account was published, Kowalevsky has given further details of his investigations on this point, and more especially describes the later history of the hindermost section of the alimentary tract.
In the hindermost of these (3C) is seen the solid terminal point of a ureter, while the same ureter possesses a lumen in the two previous sections, but exhibits no signs of opening into the Wolffian duct.
I have noticed a remnant, somewhat similar to that in the Scyllium embryo, close to the hindermost vas efferens in an embryo Squatina (Pl.
In the hindermost of the three--the one to the right--there is a complete segmental tube (s.
Portion of nephridium of the hindermost leg of Peripatus capensis, seen in longitudinal and vertical section.
Close to the hindermost vas efferens is seen a body which resembles a rudimentary segmental tube (rst?
The abdominal pockets are only found in sections through the opening into the cloaca, and are only visible in the hindermost of my three sections.
Our two hindermostguides were also missing, but we were soon gladdened by seeing them make their appearance, and cheered them with loud and repeated hurrahs.
The hindermost style of each side is the longest, twice as long as the foremost, and one and a half times as long as the two intermediate styles.
The hindermost of these is the longest, three times as long as the diameter of the fork-thicket.
By alternately contracting and elongating its body, it pushes its hindermost legs against the hillock of silk, presses against it the hooks of its feet, so as to get them better entangled, and lets its body fall in a vertical position.
Another tribe of Bombycina comprises some very strange caterpillars, whose hindermost feet are changed into forked prolongations, which they move about in a threatening manner.
The five posterior pairs answer to the five pairs of ambulatory legs in the higher Crustaceans; and as in the case of the latter, the three, or the four hindermost pairs almost invariably resemble each other.
Shattering the bronze helmet, the American's bullet struck the Atlantean squarely between the eyes, but nevertheless the stricken officer's grenade rolled forward and burst among the hindermost of Hero Giles' followers.
A fear such as he had never known racked Nelson's consciousness as he found he washindermost of the cavalcade, which was strung out like a field of racers.
Grant Adams was centrifugal; he was not considering himself particularly and was shamelessly taking heed of the hindermost which was the devil's by right.
In 3d, the hindermost section, the lateral line is much larger than in the other sections, but no trace is present of the lateral nerve.
The legs, with the exception of the hindermost pair, are fully formed at the first ecdysis after the larva has become free.
Whether all or any of the appendages of various kinds connected with the hindermostsegments belong to the same category as the legs is very doubtful.
The second segment bears the pedipalpi, the four succeeding segments the four ambulatory appendages, and the four hindermost segments smaller provisional appendages which subsequently disappear, with the possible exception of the second.
In the case of the larva of Sergestes in the passage from the Acanthosoma (Mysis) stage to the Mastigopus stage the two hindermost thoracic appendages become atrophied and redevelop again later.
The oral invagination appears nearly coincidently with the first formation of segments at the front end of the groove between the lateral nerve cords, and the anal invagination appears slightly later at the hindermost end of the ventral plate.
The alimentary tract is not continued into the hindermost of them.
Five pairs of long provisional setae are present, of which all but the hindermost are seated on the ventral lobe of the mantle.
These three appendages are formed nearly simultaneously, but the hindermost appears to become visible slightly before the two others (Bobretzky).
The anus is formed on the ventral side of the posterior end of the body, and close to it the pouches already noticed grow out from the hindermost part of the alimentary tract (fig.
It is probable that the hindermost one does not persist through life, although it has been observed in forms with fully developed sexual organs.
It must be left an open question whether the six hindermost thoracic appendages were absent or only very much reduced in size.
The abdominal feet develop in succession from before backwards, and the whole series of them is fully formed before a trace of the appendages of the three hindermost thoracic segments has appeared.
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